A gene is the basic unit of heredity in a living organism. All living things depend on genes. Genes hold the information to build and maintain their cells and pass genetic traits to offspring. A modern working definition of a...Full article >>>

Genetics, a discipline of biology, is the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding. However,...Full article >>>

We know that species ranging from microbes to humans have similar genes and genetic pathways. ... By studying the genes of model organisms and computationally ...Full article >>>

Genes can be as short as 1000 base pairs or as long as several hundred thousand base pairs. ... estimate for the number of genes in humans has decreased as our ...Full article >>>

Each gene contains a particular set of instructions, usually coding for a ... Different genes are activated in different cells, creating the specific proteins ...Full article >>>

Genes are the units of heredity in ... In reality many genes are much larger, as are ... Genes encode the information necessary to construct the chemicals ...Full article >>>

Genes and Disease Topic Room. Lead Editor: Alexandre Vieira, Ph.D. ... Epistatic interactions can alter the phenotypic effects of other genes in a variety of ways. ...Full article >>>

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